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Best Big Muff Pedals in 2022: Reissues, Clones & Evolutions

TABLE OF CONTENT (click to jump) Click image for Video. 1969 "Triangle" Big Muff Pi (used by Jimi Hendrix) Back to List of Categories Earthquaker Devices Hoof The pedal that put Earthquaker on the map. Jamie Stillman’s first pedal is loosely based on a specific green Russian Muff belonging to…Click on the title for more

Best Big Muff Pedals in 2022: Reissues, Clones & Evolutions

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

The Calico Effects Antlers is a tribute to the Green Muff and also the first pedal released by this Rhode Island-based small builder. The regular knobs found in the original (Volume, Tone and Disatortion) are integrated by three toggle switches affecting mids, gain and diode configuration (turn them all in…Click on the title for more

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

Best Fuzz Pedals 2022: the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide

This piece features our selection of the best fuzz pedals of all time organized by circuit type and is a recap of all the articles we published about fuzz. These articles are updated more than once a year with the addition of new entries and changes in the rankings. …Click on the title for more

Best Fuzz Pedals 2022: the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide

New Pedal: Magpie Effects Moccus Fuzz

The Magpie Effects Moccus is the first pedal release by this Dutch boutique builder, it's hand-built, and features a peculiar "Squeal" knob that makes it do just that. It's a Russian Muff evolution, upgraded with a bigger bottom end, non-scooped mids and crisper highs. It also features an added octave-up…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Magpie Effects Moccus Fuzz

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

If adding a longish delay to your fuzzed-out guitar tone triggers incommensurable pleasure, you owe it to yourself to check out this new pedal by Bardic Audio and Galvanize Designs: the Bootgazer. It offers the two effects in one box, with a routing order option one stomp away (center footswitch…Click on the title for more

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

Rude Tech 3MuF-14 Muff-style 3-in-1 Fuzz

Russian Big Muff lovers, rejoice! The Rude Tech's 3MuF-14 is a three-in-one muff style distortion/fuzz, emulating three different Russian fuzz circuits (Black, Green and Civil War) through a 3-way toggle, while also offering a fourth sound achievable by entirely bypassing the "Version" circuit; this produces a tone that keeps the…Click on the title for more

Rude Tech 3MuF-14 Muff-style 3-in-1 Fuzz

JHS Pedals Crimson Fuzz

The JHS Pedals Crimson, from the Legends of Fuzz Series, is a faithful recreation of the "Mike Matthews' Red Army Overdrive" Read the story of the pedal at the bottom of the page and check out the videos, below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXtMCMcu6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVeqEIn2Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPpoOs9hu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNdZ4hz601Y In 1969, Electro Harmonix released the first…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Crimson Fuzz

D Sound Orion Fuzz

Saint-Petersburg based pedal builder D Sound's Orion is a fuzz based on the Russian Muff (of course!) but hosts a series of extra controls, including an ever useful Mid knob and also a Focus one that lets you pick between a more focused and tight kind of fuzz, and a "fat,"…Click on the title for more

D Sound Orion Fuzz

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